Want to fight crime? Plant some flowers with your neighbor
- Written by Marc A Zimmerman, Professor, University of Michigan
Flint, Mich., has one of the highest crime rates in the country for a city of its size. One neighborhood has found a novel way to fight back.Carlos Osorio/AP Images
Neighborhoods struggling with physical decline and high crime often become safer simply when local residents work together to fix up their neighborhood.
My colleagues and I at the Univers...
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